July 21, 2022

Does HREFLang help with Indexing?

Earlier this week Gus Pelogia posted a very interesting question/statement on Twitter asking if Hreflang helps with indexing. He also posted the results of a test where he stated that 93% of the previously missing pages were now indexed, and a later post indicated that they continued to be indexed […]
September 14, 2021

Deploying HREFLANG when the global site does not want to participate

I am encountering more and more cases of large multinational sites are markets, especially dominant markets, resist hreflang implementation or being fixed as they fear it may cannibalize their traffic numbers.  This often happens due to these sites may have been around longer and/or have more authority or relevance. In […]
August 26, 2021

Does your CMS Create Correct XML Site Maps?

When we do the setup for HRFLang Builder the client will send or we will build a country and language matrix indicating all the domains and their respective country or language targeting. This client gave us the following info: Use the country locator as the primary list of country and […]
April 6, 2021

Make a Business Case for HrefLang Implementation

While using hreflang on a multinational website seems like a no brainer many are often faced with the need to convince management to allocate budget and/or developer resources for hreflang Implementation? We suggest the following steps to develop a business case for hreflang. The purpose of any business case is […]